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US 4,625,469 AGranted
Replacement flat roof insulation cover
OwnerThomas H. Gentry, Robert W. Maysinventors
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Abstract
Roof replacement structure for flat roof building having panels of rigid insulation applied over the roof surface. A flexible membrane is applied over the rigid insulation and a periphery of the membrane overlapping a side of the building is fastened thereto with a termination bar.
Claims10
A roof replacement structure for a building having a substantially flat roof at about right angles to the building sidewalls comprising:
- (a) contiguous panels of rigid insulation applied over the flat roof and substantially covering the roof exposed flat surfaces;
- (b) a flexible, water impervious membrane fastened over the panels of rigid insulation and the roof with a plurality of mechanical fasteners, the membrane having a plurality of extensions covering the mechanical fasteners, the extensions overlapping the mechanical fasteners and being heat sealed to the membrane;
- (c) a periphery of the membrane overlapping the upper portion of the building sidewalls and mechanically fastened thereto with a termination insert bar having an inboard and outboard side;
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- (d) the termination insert bar having a first and second leg on the outboard side holding a roofing member insert and a first and second nose on the inboard side, at least one nose in contact with the periphery of the membrane overlapping the sidewall.
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A method of repairing a flat roof at about right angles to its supporting sidewalls by:
- (a) applying panels of rigid insulation in abutting relationship over all exposed flat surfaces of the roof;
- (b) mechanically fastening the rigid insulation to the flat roof;
- (c) covering the rigid insulation with a flexible water impervious insulated membrane;
- (d) mechanically fastening the flexible membrane along multiple transverse lines to the rigid insulation;
- (e) overlapping and heat sealing edges of the flexible membrane over all mechanical fasteners;
- (f) overlapping the periphery of the flexible membrane along the sidewalls;
- (g) mechanically fastening the flexible membrane along the sidewalls with a termination insert bar having first and second legs;
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- (h) inserting a strip of flexible membrane between the first and second legs to cover all exposed mechanical fasteners.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.